Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

  19. “I like my rooms to look really lived in”: Morrow, p. 65.

  20. “a bureaucrat’s dream”: Turner, p. 46.

  21. “rather personal to oneself”: E II R documentary.

  22. “a piece of 300 to 900 words”: Government chief whip to Mr. R. T. Armstrong, Feb. 22, 1975, National Archives, Kew.

  23. “low wattage”: Mr. Bernard Weatherill, His Humble Duty [to HMTQ], Parliamentary Proceedings from Monday 14th February to Friday 18th February, 1972, National Archives, Kew.

  24. “as well informed”: Morrow, p. 158.

  25. Michael Adeane estimated: Pimlott, p. 401. 72 “If I missed one once”: Confidential interview.

  26. “my way of meeting people”: E II R documentary.

  27. she reverted to her nursery ways: Morrow, p. 92.

  28. “She is not particular”: Confidential interview.

  29. In her first gesture of modernity: Jonathan Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales: A Biography, p. 22.

  30. “a final romp”: Dean, p. 172.

  31. “Why isn’t Mummy”: Ibid., p. 173.

  32. “For a real action man”: McDonald, The Duke documentary.

  33. “wielded over the Sovereign”: G. Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria, p. 93.

  34. “The Monarchy changed”: Brandreth, p. 215.

  35. “Refugee husband”: Ibid., p. 147.

  36. “Philip was constantly being squashed”: Ibid., p. 218.

  37. “My father was considered pink”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  38. “the House of Mountbatten now reigned”: Hugo Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 311.

  39. “She was very young”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  40. “I am the only man”: Pimlott, p. 185.

  41. “I’m nothing but a bloody amoeba”: Hugh Massingberd, Daydream Believer: Confessions of a Hero-Worshipper, p. 148.

  42. “that old drunk Churchill”: Ibid.

  43. “Churchill never forgave my father”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  44. “save her a lot of time”: McDonald, The Duke documentary.

  45. “would submit entirely”: Dimbleby, p. 59.

  46. “she was not indifferent so much as detached”: Ibid.

  47. “her struggle to be a worthy head of state”: William Deedes interview (Jan. 20, 1998).

  48. “In the first five years she was more formal”: Confidential interview.

  49. she once attended a ball: New York Times, Feb. 8, 1996.

  50. “How much nicer”: Nancy Mitford, Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley, p. 291.

  51. “must seem very blank”: Bradford, p. 169.

  52. “engulfed by great black clouds”: Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions, p. 299.

  53. a small run-down castle: Author’s observations and tour by Nancy McCarthy.

  54. “How sad it looks”: Aberdeen Press and Journal, Jan. 9, 2009.

  55. “escape there occasionally”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 670.

  56. “The point of human life”: Ibid., p. 769.

  57. “the great mother figure”: Beaton, Strenuous Years, p. 147.

  58. “like a great musical comedy actress”: Roy Strong interview.

  59. “pink cushiony cloud”: Cecil Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, introduction by Hugo Vickers, p. 52.

  60. “They were great confidantes”: Dame Frances Campbell-Preston interview.

  61. “an Edwardian lady”: Ibid.

  62. “A lot of the importance”: Confidential interview.

  63. “The Queen Mother was always”: Confidential interview.

  64. The two women deferred to each other: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  65. “very much the Sovereign”: Nicolson, Vita and Harold, p. 405.

  66. “millions outside Westminster Abbey”: The Queen’s First Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 1952, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  67. “henceforth have, hold and enjoy”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 194.

  68. “not those of a busy”: Beaton, Strenuous Years, p. 120.

  69. “We took it for granted”: Gay Charteris interview.

  70. “quite inappropriate for a King”: Bradford, p. 184, citing 98th and 99th Conclusions, 18 and 20 Nov. 1952, National Archives, Kew.

  71. “What a smug stinking lot”: Michael Bloch, The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor, p. 279.

  72. “like a phoenix-time”: Pimlott, p. 193.

  73. “the emblem of the state”: Washington Post, June 3, 1953.

  74. She met several times: Canon John Andrew interview.

  75. “I’ll be all right”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 199.

  76. “All the deposed monarchs are staying”: Mini Rhea, with Frances Spatz Leighton, I Was Jacqueline Kennedy’s Dressmaker, p. 162.

  77. “and that takes a bit of arranging”: Deane Heller and David Heller, Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 81.

  78. “a great big, warm personality”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, p. 143.

  79. “swathed in purple silk”: Baltimore Sun, June 3, 1953.

  80. “She was relaxed”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  81. “You must be feeling nervous”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 182.

  82. “Ready, girls?”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  83. “plucked indiscriminately”: Baltimore Sun, June 3, 1953.

  84. “backwards and forwards”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, p. 144.

  85. she gave a slight neck bow: British Pathe Coronation newsreel, Part 1, June 3, 1953.

  86. “Lord Cholmondeley had to do”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  87. “It was the most poignant moment”: Ibid.

  88. “Some small interest was generated”: Baltimore Sun, June 3, 1953.

  89. “The real significance”: John Andrew interview.

  90. “gentleness in levying taxes”: British Pathe Coronation newsreel, Part 2, June 3, 1953.

  91. “intense expectancy”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, p. 144.

  92. “Look, it’s Mummy!”: Associated Press, June 2, 1953.

  93. “sadness combined with pride”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, p. 143.

  94. “She used to say”: Frances Campbell-Preston interview.

  95. “never once did she lower”: Associated Press, June 2, 1953.

  96. “Oh ma’am you look so sad”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  97. “as a simple communicant”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, p. 145.

  98. Before leaving the chapel: Anne Glenconner interview.

  99. “We were all running”: Ibid.

100. “anchored them in her arms”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, p. 147.

101. “Elizabethan explorers”: William Manchester, Baltimore Sun, June 3, 1952.

102. “the Coronation has unified”: Earl Warren, governor of California, to Dwight D. Eisenhower, report on coronation, June 30, 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.